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Optical Study of Structural/Electronic Property Change in Thin Polyethylene Terephthalate Film by Stretching

by G. Carotenuto

Posted: April 23, 2026
Server: Preprints.org
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202604.1171.v2

Optical spectroscopy provides several useful information about polymeric ultrathin films by combining interferometric and optical absorption data contained in the UV-Vis-NIR spectra. In particular, the UV-Vis-NIR spectrum of an ultrathin polymeric film contains information about the film thickness, structural disorder, bandgap energy, type of electron transition model (direct/indirect, allowed/forbidden), cut-on wavelength (i.e., the opaque/transparent switching wavelength), etc. Here, these properties have been determined for a model semi-crystalline polymer (polyethylene terephthalate, PET) in form of ultrathin film before and after a mild mechanical deformation treatment (manual stretching). It has been found that EU and Eg parameters are not strictly depending on mechanical deformation due to their main dependence on chemical composition/constitution of the polymer.

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